Feature
SGI-USA to Expand Reopening
At the Central Executive Committee Conference, representative leaders discuss the next phase of in-person activities in 2023.
In this issue
Encouragement
Moving From a Focus on Self to a Focus on Others
The following excerpts are from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at a youth division leaders meeting held at the Soka International Friendship Hall in Tokyo on April 13, 1993. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the most recent Soka Gakkai Headquarters leaders meeting on Aug. 27, 2022. This was translated from the Sept. 6, 2022,
Brief Guidances
Tapping the Inexhaustible Wellspring of Buddha Wisdom Within
Toward A Hope-Filled Future with the Daishonin's Writings: Words of Encouragement from Ikeda Sensei
Brief Guidances
Creating Peace Through the Power of Our Lion’s Roar
Toward A Hope-Filled Future with the Daishonin's Writings: Words of Encouragement from Ikeda Sensei
Our History
Oct. 2, 1960
Ikeda Sensei had been the third Soka Gakkai president for just five months when, on Oct. 2, 1960, he boarded Japan Airlines Flight 800 to Honolulu. It was his first overseas journey to spread Nichiren Buddhism. As the plane roared over the Pacific Ocean, Sensei placed his hand over his jacket’s inner breast pocket, where
News
New Member Resources and Public Websites
The SGI-USA launched its new Member Resources portal (portal.sgi-usa.org), a website featuring all your member and leader resources in one place; and the new SGI-USA website (sgi-usa.org), now a purely outward-facing website geared toward informing the general public of our Buddhist practice and community. Member Resources Website Features: • A more personalized design and user
Check It Out
Introducing ‘Globie’
Say “hi” to Globie, our new World Tribune mascot, who travels across the country to celebrate our kosen-rufu history and share the latest and greatest in our publications! Globie’s home will be on our SGI-USA social media accounts, starting on Oct. 2 to help us celebrate World Peace Day. Follow Globie on Instagram and Facebook
Experience
Closing the Gap
Seeing myself through my mentor’s eyes, I open my life to the love I deserve.
Soka Gakkai
Exert Ourselves Joyfully to Enrich Our Districts
The following words were shared at the Sept. 17 Central Executive Committee and Executive Council Conference. by Yoshiki Tanigawa SGI Vice President Congratulations on holding the SGI-USA Executive Council meeting. Thank you also to the members of the Central Executive Committee for your participation. At today’s executive council meeting, the renewal of the terms for
Go-To Gosho Passages
Becoming ‘a Person of Courage’
The Great Teacher Dengyo says: “Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.” “On the Buddha’s Prophecy,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 402 Ikeda Sensei’s Encouragement 1. Courage Comes From Defeating
National Parks
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan
Covering 60,000 acres, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park remains one of the few large wilderness areas in the Midwest. The park boasts various natural attractions—a 35,000-acre forest, roaring waterfalls, secluded lakes, scenic rivers and streams, and over 90 miles of hiking trails. The native Ojibwe people named the mountains after the shape of their silhouette,